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Friday, April 30, 2010

PULP CENTRAL: CROSSOVERS ~ VOLUME1!

PULP CENTRAL: CROSSOVERS ~ VOLUME1!

DAWN OF TIME-1939WIN SCOTT ECKERT

COVER BY MARK MADDOX

Crossovers is a massive timeline of crossover stories in which characters, situations, or universes are linked together in order to build the Crossover Universe. Lovingly compiled by crossover and Wold Newton expert Win Scott Eckert, Crossovers lists upwards of 2000 crossover stories, with innumerable additional timeline entries which outline the secret history of the land of fiction. With introductions by Kim Newman (Volume 1) and Jess Nevins (Volume 2), each volume is illustrated with over 200 book and magazine covers, and contains appendices covering myriad television crossovers, alternate universes, and Newman's Anno Dracula series.

From the depths of ancient ages, when Atlantis and Opar fell, when Solomon Kane traveled back in time to fight alongside Conan, and Red Sonja battled Claw . . .

. . .To the Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian eras, when both Zorro and Cagliostro fought Dracula; Frankenstein's Creature went to Pellucidar; the Scarlet Pimpernel clashed with the sorcerer Leonox; detective C. Auguste Dupin took on the notorious Black Coats; Phileas Fogg sparred with Captain Nemo; and Sherlock Holmes' legendary pursuit of justice led to cooperation or conflict with Arsène Lupin, Doctor Who, Dracula, Allan Quatermain, Professor Challenger, the Phantom of the Opera , Raffles, Fu Manchu, Fantômas, the Time Traveler, Carnacki, the Invisible Man, Father Brown, Rouletabille, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hercule Poirot, The Shadow, and even Martian invaders . . .

. . . And to the burgeoning Twentieth Century, which saw Tarzan variously team up with Judex and Batman, and separately take on Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein's creature; Sexton Blake take a case at Pemberley House and pursue Raffles; the Nyctalope battle Ernst Stavro Blofeld; Indiana Jones outwit Dracula; G-8 and the Red Falcon soar together over the skies of France; Jeeves and Wooster bump up against some Cthulhuoid awfulness; and Doc Savage meet the Rocketeer and clash with Fu Manchu . . .